The NGO Fund for Peace and the journal Foreign Policy recently released their sixth Failed States Index covering 2010. Kenya has improved in these rankings that are required reading for serious analysts, moving from 13th "most failed" state in 2009 to 16th last year.
But we are in the same league as Somalia, Chad, Sudan, DRC, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Cote d'Ivoire, Pakistan, Nigeria, Niger and Yemen. Our neighbours -- who we often disparage -- are "less failed", though Burundi, Uganda and Ethiopia are not far off. Tanzania does not even make the top 60.
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